Wednesday 25 May 2016

Whip Ma Whop Ma Gate, York YO1 8BL



Whip Ma Whop Ma Gate is a small street in central York.  It was the site of a whipping post/pillory during the medieval period. The street used to be called Whitnourwhatnourgate, meaning "neither one thing, nor the other" in Norse.

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